The Brainwashing of My Dad (2015)

 'The Brainwashing of My Dad' is a documentary by first time film maker Jen Sinko. The project has its roots in a kickstarter campaign, but the final product looks reasonably professional and manged to get the likes of Noam Chomsky and Jeff Cohen as talking heads, not to mention Matthew Modine to narrate. The film uses as its starting point the transformation of Sinko's once nominally democratic dad into a right wing zealot, and practically a different person as a result of consuming increasing amounts of conservative media. This is a our gate way into a pretty good survey course on the rise of conservative media since say the 1960's, and it's effects on people. consumers, family and friends. I was already aware of most of this information but it was presented in a way (that didn't annoy me) and would make it a pretty good introduction to the topic for those who aren't. There is even a surprise happy ending. Better then I would have thought. ***